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| DRAMA JOURNAL - MAR 20 2003 Click here to go home THESE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON THINGS... KEEP IN MIND I WRITE WHAT I FEEL AND THINK AND I WRITE IT LIKE A PRIVATE JOURNAL - NOTHING IS TONED DOWN EVEN THOUGH IT WILL BE VIEWED BY OTHER PEOPLE... Yet another journal. Hmmm. Where to start? Well, I might as well review the stuff we've done since the last entry, which is a mix of the good, the bad, and the downright horses-ass ugly. Ok, well shortly after the last entry, we did the Bananas In Pyjamas thing. Not a bad idea - B1 and B2 born, and then dying of drugs shortly afterwards. Charming. Sends out a pretty wholesome message - "You can't do drugs, even if you're a piece of fruit". Anyway, it wasn't that bad an idea, and I'm purely just saying that because I came up with it. Oh well the other groups had a psychotic-homosexual-fatigued and just plain weird John Edward and a Superman that really only gave a shit about his image. Wonderful stuff, that. The lesson afterwards I thought to be pretty interesting. It was the one where we got to make up a really weird plot. Our group - (Ellyce, Kylie, Mel and Myself) did a nice little restaurant where the customers were on the menu, if you smell what I'm cooking.... literally. The other groups had two pilots that ended up hijacking their own plane (what the?) and leaving the passengers for dead (how nice) and fnally, the last group - who stated off suspiciously looking like our play - ended up with Matt poisoning Nick with rat poison. Man-o-man, along comes the lesson with the photos. We had to pick a photo from a group member, pick a person in that photo, and role-play his/her family or connections two generations from now. I thought it sounded pretty simple despite asking Benney to repeat the criteria more than twice. This was yet another activity I did with Rachel and Kylie. Good ideas during preparation time? Sure. On stage - not so good. In all fairness, it didn't go too badly, but we kind of ran out of time and rushed the thing. Shame, too, I guess a little more time and it would've been pretty good. You could say we learned a valuable lesson in taking the time we have seriously. Following that we did the four plot twists/four character aspects/ screwed up story/nursery rhyme thingamajig. Ended up with Wade, Ashkaan, and Matt. let me put it this way; if you were going to create a quartet of immaturity, this'd be it. Well maybe that quartet would include Nick. Anyway for a group of boys, we came up with some good ideas. Aaah who am I kidding? The idea was developed by Ashkaan and myself, as we thought they (Wade and Matt) would be going on Surf Camp instead of actually doing it prematurely on Tuesday. Anyway after dismissing Pinnochio and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory quicker than Steve Irwin can say "Crikey", Hansel & Gretel was next up. Seriously, thinking about this, this story could've gone ANYWHERE. And it did. Who can go wrong with drugs, the mafia, and a cameo by Ms Benney? Not us, surely. I thought we did fairly well, but then again I say that way too frequently. The other groups faired quite nicely too, but just quietly I think we had this battle won. And that brings me to today's (Thursday's) double period. Although we only had eight people - nine including Benney, we managed to do a really cool and effective performances. Mind you that was after our heads were messed up with trying to figure what-the-hell the game "Me, You" was. Aaaaanyway, today's activity was to split up into pairs and pick a space - anywhere in the theatre and use that aspect somehow in your performance. So, whilst Gemma and Ellyce scared the living crap out of us and Rachel and Tiffany had an interesting game of run-and-hide (helped by the red backdrop and how they worked their way up from the stage to where we were standing) and then the errr... urinary antics of Craig and "President" Nick (No idea who elected him) were quite intriguing. I mean I can take a stab and say Nick came up with that, but it doesn't really matter - although blunt, it was still a good idea and sort of gave us an (unwanted) intimate and up-close (not too close, praise the Lord) view of what went on behind the scenes of these politicians. And finally our one. I know I really pushed the button on how good it was but to be quite subtle, it was good. Hell, it was damn good, or so I thought (and I still do, though to a somewhat lesser extent). Our malfunctioning spaceship that turned out to be a ride was crafty and imaginative and we made the audience really think twice. We made them think what the hell was going on. Then I hit 'em with the punc hline; "the ride is over, everybody can leave through this door" and paused for effect. I have to say we didn't have a lot of time, especially when we couldn't get the ticket booth thingy open but hey, we made the audience a part of our performande, we made them think and we even scared some of them. Good? Great. Mission Accomplished! -Bob [END OF PAGE] All material on this website is (c) 2003 Bob Productions Inc., on behalf of the Curiosity KilledThe Cat Team and Maroondah Secondary College. Don't copy anything without permission or a lawsuit will be coming your way. |
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